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Re:ZetaVM, my new compiler project by __s on Saturday April 29, 2017 @05:54PM (#14228983)
What about WebAssembly? It's hit 1.0 now, & it's designed so that 1.0 wasm will never become deprecated

My own thoughts have been considering a wasm vm in kernel space. No need to ever exit kernel space; the wasm vm provides sufficient sandboxing. Wasm binaries could run on any architecture. Hopefully come up with a method that browsers can efficiently run wasm in directly in the kernel's sandboxing rather than having wasm-in-wasm. Syscalls could be exposed through wasm's import/export system. Kind of like that Metal idea in "The Birth & Death of JavaScript"

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Re:ZetaVM, my new compiler project by tachyonbeam on Saturday April 29, 2017 @06:20PM (#14229083)
WASM may remain stable, but it provides no APIs to the outside world AFAIK. The DOM keeps changing, and if the APIs are implementation-dependent, then WASM doesn't guarantee non-breaking at all.

Another advantage that Zeta has is that it will come with useful building blocks for dynamic languages. With WASM, you have to implement your own dynamic typing, GC, JIT, etc, and the current WASM implementation doesn't yet support JITting.

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